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Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Today's Reading: Rise and Fall of the CIO–ALP

Political Power and Social Theory is a series of books collecting academic topics in political science and social theory. Volume 18, Part II, focuses on "Opposition Politics in America" and includes a piece on the American Labor Party. Formed in the 1940s by the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), the American Labor Party rose to prominence in New York. Check it out, with thanks to Google books.